Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Judy Blume, 75, has shaped several generations with her frank, perceptive novels aimed at teens — and kids today are still flocking to her young-adult books. But it’s taken until now for the author of “Forever” and “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” to have one of her books turned into a movie. “Tiger Eyes,” cowritten by Blume and her son, Lawrence, and directed by him, is out Friday on VOD. It’s based on the 1981 novel about a girl whose family moves to New Mexico after her father is killed. She’s played by the exquisite Willa Holland, who’s on CW’s “Arrow” (and way back when, she was troublemaker Kaitlin Cooper of “The O.C.”). Are you there, on-demand audience?